Dramborn
Starting the site cleanup
The website was starting to look a little dirty. So I cleaned it up. It still has a long way to go too.
However, here's a short list of what I have done so far:
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I made a new header. This can be changed if you want.
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I changed the Primary Navigation. I felt that the old ones lacked logical structure. I will be associating other aspects of this site in a loose hierarchy under these new Nav Buttons.
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I changed some of the widgets. They don't all show up in the same place, resulting in cleaner pages and focusing people's awareness on the important stuff on the different pages.
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I renamed the Home Page to "News". That's the focal point for our members, and sits on the right.
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I moved new recruit information to a page called "Join". This now has only the welcome message and the links to new recruit info.
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Crafting and Events are new. I will be fleshing those out in the next few weeks. Crafting will get a list of all Guilded Crafters, starting with the Masters. Events will list recurring non-raid activities for members.
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Raiding was beefed up to accommodate the Greycloaks. The Rapid Raid system looks pretty good, and I threw a couple extra widgets on the left sidebar that people should get familiar with. You can actually do Boss Strategies and Raid completions with two of them.
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The Wiki will start getting converted into our library. I am going to copy as much as I can from the forums and prune them.
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The Forums were reorganized. They still need work, but they are a bit easier to move through now. I would suggest using the News Forums for announcing upcoming events and important stuffs; the headers are automatically translated to the News Page.
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I fiddled with the forum and site permissions a bit, but nothing too rash. If you can't read this, then let me know. :envy:
Here's what I plan on doing (eventually):
- Use the Wiki as a basis for all major/general questions. This will require some system architecture (links from Join panel will point to Wiki eventually, so permissions will have to be fixed there).
- Identify all functioning pages on Guildlaunch (Roster, PvP, Calendar, Polls, etc.) & integrate as needed
- Flesh out all information on Primary Navigation pages
- Build more Nesh-specific graphics and icons
- Create the Links options on the sidebars to be more effective/connected.
- Update the roster and permissions.
Feel free to offer some suggestions.
by Dramborn on 2012-02-10 03:32:09
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